Daniel Alden Reed papers, 1914-1960.

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Daniel Alden Reed papers, 1914-1960.

Includes correspondence with constituents, colleagues, and others, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous materials concerning taxation, tariff policies, and other aspects of the work of the House Ways and Means Committee, congressional elections, the Supreme Court reorganization bill of 1937, the work of the Office of Price Administration, the Civilian Production Administration, the Economic Cooperation Administration, and other government agencies, legislation on employment, immigration, naturalization, labor, education, and the postal service, such public questions as socialized medicine, foreign aid, universal military training, the St. Lawrence Seaway, Indians in New York State, and veterans' affairs; correspondence with his secretaries, Frank S. Cisna and Carl Willingham; Interparliamentary Union correspondence and documents (1939-1958); diary concerning Reed's trip to England and France as a member of the Food Conservation Mission; photographs of wartime scenes; correspondence and printed material regarding the Korean War; letters concerning the promotion and expansion of chambers of commerce, notably those in New York State, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Massachusetts; drafts of speeches Reed made at chamber of commerce meetings, scrapbooks and notebooks (1915-1957), family letters, material pertaining to Washington social activities, financial records, and other personal papers; photographs, citations, certificates, and other materials. In addition, personal and family letters of D. A. Reed and his wife, Georgia Ticknor Reed.

89 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7909547

Cornell University Library

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